University Hospital Waterford is dealing with an outbreak of Covid-19.
A number of positive cases have been confirmed at the facility.
Hospital management has asked staff to redouble their efforts to keep everybody safe.
No visitors are allowed on-site as a result.
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In a statement the hospital says "an outbreak control team has been deployed to set up the appropriate limitation measures."
In terms of Covid-19, an outbreak is when two or more cases are linked to the same location.